History records the Javanese people began to be sent to Suriname in 1890. The first group of Javanese immigrants numbered 94 people. They were taken by ship in the course of many months and arrived in the Dutch colony on August 9, 1890.
Paul Salam Somohardjo
The group recruited De Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij to be employed in sugar cane plantation and sugar mill Marienburg. Four years later the same company sent another 582 Javanese. In 1897, the Dutch government took over the process of sending immigrants from Indonesia. Until 1939 the number of people who were brought to Suriname Javanese reach 32 956 people by using 34 times the carriage.
Javanese people are working in the Dutch plantation system based on the contract. In the agreement, they have the right to return to their homeland (repatriation) when the contract is up. Then from 1890 to 1939 there were 8,120 people who choose to return to Indonesia.
In 1947 a second wave of repatriation to bring 1,700 people and last in 1954 as many as 1,000 people.
Thus a total of no more than 11 thousand people are choosing Java return to their homeland. While most of the others decided to settle in Suriname and then multiply by the fourth generation now.
They are our fathers, therefore every ladder August 9th we commemorated as the Day of Wong Java to honor the ancestors who have sacrificed so much.
Dinggo pengeling-eling nek awak dewe isih wong Jawa (for a reminder that we are still Javanese).
Paul Salam Somohardjo is the founder and chairman of the largest party of the Javanese in Suriname. He also had the birth of the Party Pendawa Lima along Sahidi Rasaam, Rasiman, Muhammad Usman and Admin Adna. But its leadership later ousted by young children led Raymond Sapoen in 1997.
Paul also been a social and Housing Minister in 2000-2005. When Pertjajah Sublime won the election in 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Parliament. The peak in 2010, Paul became the first Javanese descent forward a presidential candidate. But he failed to unite the parties Java to support himself, resulting in a presidential election in parliament he was lost.
According to Paul, it's time to leave the old paradigm Javanese as colonized people. It is time now to build Javanese Suriname, because they lived or died there in the country.
" Mulane, awak dewe ojo isin dadi wong Jawa. Ojo mung jenenge wae sing Jawa, tapi ora duwe rasa dadi wong Jawa (So we should not shy so the Javanese. Do not just the Java name, but do not have a sense as Java)," said the man 72 years more than half of his life was spent in the political world.
Paul acknowledges, the Javanese still difficult to lead the country, because Suriname is a multiethnic country that lose-win in the ballot-determined many residents say the least. Until today the population of Javanese descent still number four under ethnic Hindustan (India), Creole (African) and Maroon descent (Negro reasons).
Indeed, there is no accurate statistical data which confirm the number of Javanese in Suriname now. But Paul said, the numbers are still about 15 percent or 80 thousand in the total population of Suriname, amounting to 530 thousand inhabitants. The number was not changed much in the last ten years.
" Mergane bocah-bocah saiki ora gelem duwe anak akeh. Paling-paling mung loro. Beda karo wong alasan (maroon) sing duwe anak iso nganti sepuluh, malah ono sing duwe anak nganti 18 bocah (because the children now do not want to have much children. At most, only two. In contrast to the Maroons citizens who have children up to 10, and some even have children up to 18), "said the father of eleven children from two wives.
Besides the number of citizens who lose when compared with other nations, the \Javanese not want to merge, unite. Java nation fragmented into many interests, both in the political, religious and social.
"In history, since I was a farm laborer, the Java has never been united, but if you want to unite this nation will be very strong," said Salimin Ardjooetomo, figures in Suriname Javanese descent who actively moving through the preservation of the Java language and the arts.
According to her notes, the 2010 elections actual Java parties that had been fragmented been able to unite. They are Pertjajah Luhur Party, Party Pendawa Lima, Party D-Selikur, NPLO (National Party Leader-schap voor en Outwikkeling) and PPRS (People Development Partij Suriname). Only KTPI (Kerukunan Tulada Pranatan Inggil) are still reluctant to join.
"Because Java is not spherical fused party, the advancement of Paul Somohardjo as the first presidential candidate of the Javanese was a total failure. The voice of the Javanese in parliament inferior to sound other nations," said Salimin.
When the united party, who aspired Java nation can be achieved, namely the lifting of the dignity and worth of the nation's Java.
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